The abilities and potential of our women are enslaved to the typewriter, the bar or the beds in those hotels we have put up in every corner of the country for the pleasure of tourists. How insulting to our national dignity that our women should have become mere flowers to decorate the beds of foreignContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Kenyan Women as Tourist Attractions (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
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RKS African Literature: Misogyny Overcome (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
People love to denigrate the intelligence and intellectual capacity of our women by saying that the only jobs a woman can do are to cook, to make beds and to spread their legs in the market of love. The Warĩĩnga of today has rejected all that reasoning that because her thighs are hers, her brainContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Misogyny Overcome (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: GLORIOUS SLAVERY: KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
This means that the churches, the schools, the poetry, the songs, the cinema, the beer halls, the clubs, the newspapers will act as brain-washing poisons whose purpose will be to convince the worker that in this world there is nothing as glorious as slavery to the Kimeendeeri class, so that each worker will look forwardContinue reading “RKS African Literature: GLORIOUS SLAVERY: KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
But to be on the safe side, Kimeendeeri will build prisons and law courts and will hire armed forces, so that anyone who opposes Shamba’s system of laws or wishes to leave the confines of the farm will be punished by being jailed or detained in pits of total darkness or shot and thrown toContinue reading “RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: LIQUOR: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Kimeendeeri will also build breweries and clubs for hard liquor and other alcoholic drinks, like chang’aa and lager so that alcohol will make idiots out of those who have not already been crazed by Christian and Muslim ritual. Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
RKS African Literature: CONTROL OF MEDIA: Manipulating the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Kimeedeeri will also publish newspapers, whose role will be to denigrate those opposed to the system of drinking human blood and eating human flesh, and to celebrate the charitable hand-outs of Kimeedeeri and his friends. Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
On the farm he’ll build churches or mosques, depending on the religious inclinations of the workers. He will employ priests. Every Sunday the workers will read sermons that will instruct them that the system of milking human sweat, human blood and human brains-the system of the robbery of human labour power and human skills isContinue reading “RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: EDUCATION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Kimeendeeri will also build schools which the workers’ children will be taught that the system of drinking human blood and eating human flesh has always held sway since the world was created and will always hold sway until the end of the world and there is nothing that the people can do to put anContinue reading “RKS African Literature: EDUCATION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Will I Feel the Spirit and Will I Cry at Check Check-Out!
Early this morning our buddies T and I from France arrived at the hotel. I phoned T around 09:00 and plans were to meet in a few minutes at the hotel’s rooftop café for breakfast. We had planned a 8 day tour of Greece with T and I and Anthology of Athens was to beContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:17September2026: Athens: Will I Feel the Spirit and Will I Cry at Check Check-Out!”
RKS African Literature: KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Kimeendeeri intends to fence off the farm with barbed wire, just like the wire that was used to fence off detention camps during the state of Emergency in colonial Kenya. He plans to pen in the workers in there like animals. He will then fit electrically operated machines to their bodies for milking their sweatContinue reading “RKS African Literature: KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
